LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Some of Syria’s worst wildfires in years have been brought under control as of Sunday, according to the Civil Defense and the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, following days of grueling firefighting in the forested countryside of the coastal Latakia province.

Multiple aircraft are fighting the fire and a federal incident management team is set to take command of the fire first thing Friday, emergency officials said.

The amount of land burned this year is on pace to be the most since 1994, as 100 blazes roared on Friday across the central Canadian province.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy issued southeast Michigan's sixth air quality advisory of the season on Saturday due to elevated levels of fine particulate matter in the air from Canadian wildfires.

Engine 3411 is responding to a fire on the north rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. The Colorado State Patrol has been called to assist in the evacuation of the campgrounds at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Forest area. Two active fires are burning, one near the… pic.twitter.com/Xdpg4jBFld

Thousands of animals found themselves in local shelters and rescues after the Eaton and Palisades fires. Many still hope for a forever home. But finding one is not always easy in a region where

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that wildfires in Colorado and throughout the western United States can dramatically alter the water quality of rivers and streams up to

A haze visible in parts of the Sacramento Valley is from multiple wildfires burning in Northern California. A north wind is pushing the smoke to the valley, and a high-pressure system is locking it in with little wind.